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Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The Cup of Coffee Club shares the stories of eleven men who played in just a single major league baseball game and how they responded to the heartache of never making it back. Featuring exclusive interviews with each of the players, their insight provides a unique look into the struggles of being a professional ballplayer. Reaching the major leagues is a pipe dream for most young baseball players in America. Very few ever get to live it out. While...
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Longer than Moby-Dick and nearly as ambitious,The Baseball 100 is a one-of-a-kind work by award-winning sportswriter and lifelong student of the game Joe Posnanski that tells the story of the sport through the remarkable lives of its 100 greatest players. In the book's introduction, Pulitzer Prize-winning commentator George F. Will marvels, "Posnanski must already have lived more than 200 years. How else could he have acquired such a stock of...
Author
Publisher
NAL Hardcover
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Baseball in the 1930s was more than a national pastime; it was a cultural touchstone that galvanized communities and gave a struggling country its heroes despite the woes of the Depression. Hank Greenberg, one of the most exciting sluggers in baseball history, gave the people of Detroit a reason to be proud. But America was facing more than economic hardship. With the Nazis gaining power across Europe, political and social tensions were approaching...
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Never before in baseball history had a team finished last and rallied to take the pennant the following season. Yet in 1991, lightning struck twice as the Minnesota Twins and the Atlanta Braves both reached the World Series. The remarkable turnarounds resulted in arguably the greatest Fall Classic of all time. Four of the games between the Twins and Braves were settled by "walk-off" runs. Three of them, including the climactic Game Seven, went into...
Author
Publisher
Triumph Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A former baseball pitcher and current announcer, Jim Kaat reflects on baseball and his life"--
"An unforgettable look at a lifetime of baseball packed with humor and passion for the game With a career that has now touched eight decades, Jim Kaat has had a prime front row seat for baseball's continuing evolution. Not only was he a major-league pitcher for 25 seasons, but his time as a pitching coach and his many years as a broadcaster have given...
Author
Publisher
TheSportsNotebook.com
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The 1978 baseball season remains one of the most extraordinary in the long history of the sport. It's a season defined in history by Bucky Dent's dramatic home run at Fenway Park that pushed the New York Yankees past the Boston Red Sox. But there was much more and The Sequel Season covers it all. 1978 was a year when the reigning powers in each division-the Yankees, Kansas City Royals, Philadelphia Phillies and Los Angeles Dodgers-all faced spirited...
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